Behavioural Processes

Papers
(The median citation count of Behavioural Processes is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias42
Daily running trials increase sprint speed in endangered lizards (Gallotia simonyi)32
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?26
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum22
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats21
Irrational behavior in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): A violation of independence from irrelevant alternatives20
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats17
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish17
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species17
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review16
Learning about reward identities and time16
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes14
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics14
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity14
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory14
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows14
Social isolation interaction with the feeding regime differentially affects survival and results in a hump-shaped pattern in movement activity14
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels13
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)13
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice12
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training12
Influence of web traits, height, and daily periods of exposition on prey captured by orb-weaver spiders12
“How not to judge a deer by its cover”: A personality assessment study on captive adult red deer males (Cervus elaphus)11
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)11
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)11
An investigation of population variation in maze exploration and its predictors in wild Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)11
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish10
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?10
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies10
Climatic factors impacting thermoregulatory behaviours of coastal and inland rattlesnakes9
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination9
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches9
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?9
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?9
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation8
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)8
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats8
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality8
A review of the behavioral effects of response force: Perspectives on measurement and functions8
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats8
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments8
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)8
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law8
Contextualising courtship: Exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation8
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating7
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat7
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states7
Persistent fine-tuning of egg rejection based on parasitic timing in a cuckoo host even after relaxation of parasitism pressure7
Trap versus net: Behavioural sampling bias caused by capture method in three-spined sticklebacks7
Resurgence increases with repetition7
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice7
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups7
Some theoretical notes on spatial discounting7
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat7
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Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice7
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement7
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution7
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish7
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows6
Contextual control of the retardation of flavour aversion learning by preexposure to the unconditioned stimulus: Acquisition or retrieval deficit?6
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception6
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants6
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow6
Preliminary evidence for timing abnormalities in the CNTNAP2 knockout rat6
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs6
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli6
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Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model6
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa6
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment6
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)6
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp6
Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)6
Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay6
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird6
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish6
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Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework6
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens6
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?5
Maternal deprivation effect on morphine-induced CPP is related to changes in opioid receptors in selected rat brain regions (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens)5
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation5
Hand preference for a bimanual coordinated task in captive hatinh langurs (Trachypithecus hatinhensis) and grey-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix cinerea)5
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually5
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning5
Domestication effects on aggressiveness: Comparison of biting motivation and bite force between wild and domesticated finches5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)5
Non-individualistic ultrasonic and audible isolation calls throughout ontogeny in a rodent, Eolagurus luteus5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk5
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus5
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages5
Taste-induced facial responses in black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)5
Analixity: An open source, low-cost analysis system for the elevated plus maze test, based on computer vision techniques5
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats5
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats5
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)5
Effort-motivated behavior resolves paradoxes in appetitive conditioning5
Context-dependent use of visual cues in the shell selection behaviour of the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus5
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Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect5
Reproductive consequences of material use in avian nest construction5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)5
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans5
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day4
Foraging decisions of rock lizards may be dependent both on current rival assessment and dear enemy recognition4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior4
Infant handling increases grooming towards mothers in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada)4
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence4
Stimulus characteristics, learning bias and visual discrimination in zebrafish (Danio rerio)4
SQAB 2019: Perspectives on reinforcer efficacy4
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task4
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children4
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task4
Gain-loss asymmetry in delay and effort discounting of different amounts4
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles4
Advertisement call of two Liuixalus species (Anura: Rhacophoridae) endemic to Hainan Island, China4
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests4
Bringing the past into the present: Control by exteroceptive stimuli and key-peck location in a concurrent-chains procedure4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio4
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Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges4
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu4
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments4
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)4
Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: Male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates4
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Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study3
Motivating operations as contexts for operant discrimination training and testing3
Acute noise is harmful on the anti-predator behaviour of commercially important juvenile coral reef fishes3
Influence of workload and weather conditions on rolling behaviour of horses and mules3
SQAB 2022: New directions in learning research3
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)3
Activity behavior of goitered gazelles in an arid environment3
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Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination3
Cost does not prevent pigeons from investing in the future3
Decreased social interaction in the RHA rat model of schizophrenia-relevant features: Modulation by neonatal handling3
Effects of delay sequence in a delay discounting task3
Sex differences in the expression of aggressive behavior and influences on social choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)3
Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests3
Dogs fail to recognize a human pointing gesture in two-dimensional depictions of motion cues3
Relationship between reinforcement rate and response rate in Pavlovian and operant conditioning with compound stimuli in rats3
Individual variation in activity budgets of a stable population of killer whales in managed care across a year3
Emergent relations and competing behavior: Effects on interruptions, accuracy and reaction time3
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Learning to stop responding3
The consistency of exploration behaviours across life stages in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes3
Which form of environmental enrichment is most effective in rodent models of autism?3
The acoustic behavior of the Brazilian caatinga big rodent is incongruent to its actual position in Hydrochoerinae3
Behavioural responses to separation from human companion in the domestic cat: A survey-based study3
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Stress-related impairment of fear memory acquisition and disruption of risk assessment behavior in female but not in male mice3
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice3
Search image formation for spider prey in a mud dauber wasp.3
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species3
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks3
Using social network analysis to confirm the ‘gambit of the group’ hypothesis for a small cetacean3
Reproductive advantage of the winners of male-male competition in Drosophila prolongata3
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Rats do not consider all unfamiliar strains to be equivalent3
An introduction to “discrete choice experiments” for behavior analysts3
Recently encountered delay lengths produce contrast effects on delay discounting3
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Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls3
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner3
Sexual stimulation of captive Iberian ibex bucks (Capra pyrenaica): Effect of male social rank on the response to estrous females3
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Streamlining boldness measurement in fish: A practical approach to field studies3
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Parental male and female convict cichlids assess and respond to threats differently depending on intruder species3
A standardised ethogram for the Psittaciformes3
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task3
Hot crabs with bold choices: Temperature has little impact on behavioural repeatability in Caribbean hermit crabs3
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls3
Regulation of sex differences in risk-based decision making by gonadal hormones: Insights from rodent models3
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Previous experience alters individual vulnerability to angling of crucian carp (Carassius auratus)3
Horses can learn to identify joy and sadness against other basic emotions from human facial expressions3
Inhibition of alloparental behavior by acute stress in virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)3
Measuring locomotor strategies of freely moving previsual rat pups2
Female preference counteracts negative frequency dependent selection for a stable polymorphism in a livebearing fish2
Further observations on the reinforcing value of sucrose solutions: Interaction between quantity and concentration2
Modeling relational responding with artificial neural networks2
Araneophagy as an alternative foraging tactic to kleptoparasitism in two Argyrodinae (Araneae: Theridiidae) species2
Traveling through light clutter: Path integration and panorama guided navigation in the Sonoran Desert ant, Novomessor cockerelli2
Motivational factors controlling flavor preference learning and performance: Effects of preexposure with nutritive and nonnutritive sweeteners2
Learning and laterality in wild-caught Namaqua rock mice (Micaelamys namaquensis)2
When a glimpse is enough: Partial mimicry of jumping spiders by insects2
Impulsivity and self-control in elementary school children and adult females: Using identical task and procedural parameters2
Decrease in the rewarding value of spatial novelty due to the contamination of the stimulus field with light – Evidence from a free exploration test involving rats2
Sheep's coping style can be identified by unsupervised machine learning from unlabeled data2
Limited influence of hunting on the activity patterns and habitat use of Pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus) in agroecosystems of central Argentina2
Development of an apparatus for evaluating the visual and olfactory discrimination ability of cattle under controlled target visibility2
An investigation of turn alternation in two species of terrestrial isopods: Porcellio spinicornis and Trachelipus rathkii2
Time buffers teasing and lessens tobacco use: The moderating role of time perspective on bullying victimization and tobacco use in adolescents2
Boldness and learning in an active foraging lizard2
ABA and AAB renewal of alcohol seeking in rats are reduced by exposure to beer before extinction2
Punishment-induced resurgence2
Locomotor play behavior evolves by random genetic drift but not as a correlated response to selective breeding for high voluntary wheel-running behavior2
Evaluation of the capability of oil specific discrimination in detection dogs2
Are domestic chickens born with predator recognition? Validation of a sound playback experiment2
Prosociality and reciprocity according to parental status, communication, and personality in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria)2
Tactile cues are important to environmental novelty during repeated open field tests2
Multimodal cues facilitate ripe-fruit localization and extraction in free-ranging pteropodid bats2
Tests of the positive and functional allometry hypotheses for sexually selected traits in the Jamaican field cricket2
Individual and group behavioral responses to nutritional state and context in a social fish2
Qualitative variations in delay discounting: A brief review and future directions2
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The role of stimulus combinations in the repeated assessment of resurgence2
Thin-fingered fiddler crabs display a natural preference for UV light cues but show no sensory bias to other hypertrophied claw coloration2
Relational abilities index: A experimental study of the procedure at different trial durations2
Sleepiness profiles in mice submitted to acute and chronic sleep deprivation2
3D-printed operant chambers for rats: Design, assembly, and innovations2
Effects of effort training on effort-based impulsive choice2
A mixed-species shoal including fewer heterospecifics is preferred by jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus juveniles2
Uncertainty in foraging success and its consequences on fitness2
Bonding against the odds: Male prairie vole response to the “widow effect” among females2
Rhesus monkeys show greater habituation to repeated computer-generated images than do orangutans2
Why do Cattle Egrets forage with cattle? An analysis from an anti-predation perspective2
Resource limitations: A taxonomy2
Complex nests but no use of tools: An investigation of problem solving in weaverbirds (Ploceidae)2
Captive Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) show facial indicators of positive affect when reunited with their caregiver2
Evaluating and re-evaluating intra- and inter-species social transmission of food preferences in domestic dogs2
A rapid serial reversal learning assessment for age-related cognitive deficits in pet dogs2
Interspecific differences in sociability, social novelty preference, anxiety- and depression-like behaviors between Brandt's voles and C57BL/6J mice2
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First description of nest-decoration behaviour in a wild sub-Antarctic shorebird2
The importance of color and body size for reproductive decision making by males and females of the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man, 1879) (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)2
Organization of exploratory behavior under dark conditions in female and male rats2
Response timing of budgerigars in a turn-taking task under operant conditioning2
Sexual maturity, lack of partner choice and sperm precedence in the promiscuous ladybird beetle Eriopis connexa (Germar): Who is my father?2
Spatial memory in Vespula germanica wasps: A pilot study using a Y-maze assay2
Using the ‘stranger test’ to assess social competency in adult female Long Evans rats reared with a Fischer 344 partner2
Assessing effects of predator density and diversity on neophobia in Trinidadian guppies1
Food avoidance learning based on swimming in laboratory mice (Mus musculus)1
Does the time-span of conditioning affect spontaneous recovery after extinction?1
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